We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on "my" internet since the 2000s...
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I'm always horrified if I'm on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.
I'd rather pay for shit and not have ads.
wow they just really want me to start making a list of every product I will never buy again don't they?
I'm not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.
For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.
That being said, it's currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don't know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.
Personalised my foot. When I browsed youtube logged into my google account all I got was generic TV ads for womens hair care products. I am a bald male.
Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn't got me yet.
Charlie kirk can write?
The seas of purple / red / gold juxtaposed really does put into perspective the contrived sycophancy and camaraderie that comes with spectator sports. Artificial unity for its own sake, rather than for a common principle or a common goal.
It's community with artificial colors and flavoring.
This all could backfire on the advertisers hard, especially with some well-placed counter-advertising.




We think with ad blockers we're shielded by ads and to some degree, we are. At least we don't have to see the abominations. But ads are insidious. They echo. We can block the actual ads but we live in a reality that is molded by ads. They're massive coordination mechanisms that alter our shared culture. They push the masses into lifestyles and into brands. We can still shield ourselves, to some degree, from being influenced by all of this. But we can't really escape a world where a brand not only is a product but also a symbol.
Fuck AI and fuck advertising. Useless system reinforced by an even more useless technique.
Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?
The rice and bean barons will be competing for your attention.
If current “personalized ” advertising is any indication, the new ai ads will push
- whatever you most recently bought
- gambling
- something relevant to whatever demographic it’s hallucinating
But it will never do something useful like advertise things you’re searching for
I had to Google a tech problem recently. The Internet is officially dead. I should just start a gambling website and at least be comfortable in my remaining years.
Got bad news for you advertisers...
The future sucks.
Good thing I haven't seen an ad in over a decade
I don't need your ads, goodbye (ad blocked and burned).
Advertising doesn't work on me. And it's not because I'm some ultra-savvy "you can't trick me" smart guy (I am but that's not the point)... It's that advertising doesn't speak to me in the way I need to be spoken to. What I need to hear is how a product is going to change my life or improve it, and advertising doesn't do that. All the subtleties about lifestyle, self-worth, being accepted by others, that's just wasted effort on me.
I hate advertising so much it has a reverse action on me. If I remember an ad, it turns me away from the product.
I usually ignore advertising. I use all the blockers on my browsers, I don't have or watch regular TV service. I don't have Cable. I don't use Netflix or Amazon streaming.
If I go somewhere and notice an over exposure of an advert - like an entire wall with 30 posters all for Gatoraide, guess what goes on my list of things to never buy. I mean, I never buy coke, pepsi, McD, or the common offenders of overblown adverts. Nothing ends up on my shit list faster than ads like this.
Thing is, if you're bombarded by ads for a specific product, it means that company is spending a fortune on advertising. That is, the money their customers are paying them. I'm other words, the customers of those products are being ripped off.
I’ve noticed the same. I also find that I am way less susceptible to certain group dynamics than the average person seems to be. I don’t care about fitting in with the in-crowd or doing the thing everyone else is doing and the bystander effect seems to be nearly absent for me too.
I strongly suspect that those things are very related to neurodivergence in my case. My brain just brains differently.
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.
if there is a service that doesn’t work with my adblockers, i won’t use it.
The world would be so much better if marketing and advertising were outright banned from the internet.
Not just the internet
How about use it to just find a single goddamned product that I'd actually be interested in buying to show me? Half the time I explicitly enter what I'm looking for into a search field what I want still isn't the top of the results. Cunts.
Because you are not the customer of the ad networks. They are marketing bs to ad buyers, where you actually viewing the ad is merely incedental.
You'd think the ad buyers would be trying to sell products or services though. Not only get their ads in front of eyeballs but eyeballs that will buy their shit. Almost every ad I see is completely irrelevant to me.
where have i seen that before?

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

The future of advertising is AI powered ad-blockers
My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]
Jokes on them, I don't see ads at all :D
(Ublock Origin, Librewolf, Ironfox, GrapheneOS, Sponsorblock, Grayjay saving the day)
Just give AI your credit card bro.
One of the reasons I went all out in blocking ads was because they were already doing this over a decade ago with stuff with text based on your location or search history. Hit singles in your area listed your city for example.
So yeah, obviously they were going to keep going down that route with AI.
Soon enough, Disney will offer a personalize experience to white supremacists pigs where all the good characters are white, and you can pick the bad guy's skin colors. "Jesus had blond hair and blue eyes mom!" "Of course honey, just like Aladin."
